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UMaine News – Friday, November 20, 2009
SPEAKER TO DISCUSS ISRAEL-PALESTINE HUMAN RIGHTS Ms. Hadas Ziv, 2009 Visiting Oak Fellow at Colby College’s Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights and executive director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), is the scheduled speaker two free, public lectures Monday, Nov. 23. The first, “A Two-State Solution: Can Health be a Bridge to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?” is a Bangor Foreign Policy Forum event at 7:30 a.m. in the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. Ziv also will speak at 11 a.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, a lecture sponsored by the UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA). Peter Fandel at peter.fandel@umit.maine.edu has details.
DARWIN LECTURES CONTINUE NOV. 23 The University of Maine’s semester-long Celebration of Darwin continues Monday, Nov. 23 with a lecture, “Evolution of Warfare,” with Jim Roscoe of the Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute, from 8:35-9:50 a.m. in 130 Little Hall. Each class meeting in the semester-long series is open to members of the UMaine community and the public. Fourteen UMaine professors are leading course lectures. A full schedule is online at http://www.umaine.edu/news/home/celebration-of-darwin-class-meeting-and-lecture-schedule/. Those who are interested can also join the UMaine Darwin Program fan page on Facebook.
UMaine in the News
NEW YORK TIMES FEATURES UMAINE WIND POWER CONSORTIUM Comments from Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, were included in a New York Times article Thursday about the consortium of partners, including the University of Maine, who met this week with Statoil Hydro of Norway to discuss further collaboration in the development of a demonstration test model for offshore wind turbines. Aided by an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the project could lead to the first offshore wind power project in the United States, creating up to 15,000 jobs over the next 20 years. Consortium members toured UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center during Statoil’s visit to Maine. The visit also was covered by the Portland Press Herald and Mainebiz.
